Glimmer 20

April 20 Glimmer 20

20th, April 2025, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Music, Nature, Photos, Ska, Sunday, , , , , , , , ,

Glimmer 20Easter Sunday, and we’re hanging around. It’s our 3rd wedding anniversary too.  Time for Glimmer 20. Catch up on the photos! Cook a roast pork for us for tea.  We have a jar in the Lickers but other than that a chilled day.

Music

  1. The Melbourne Ska Orchestra – TV & Movie Themes
  2. The Melbourne Ska Orchestra – Transmission Fridays
  3. The Melbourne Ska Orchestra – Ska Classics
  4. The Melbourne Ska Orchestra – The Best Things in Life Are Free
  5. The Melbourne Ska Orchestra – Saturn Return
  6. The Melbourne Ska Orchestra – Read All About It!
  7. The Melbourne Ska Orchestra – Live At The Triffid

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Glimmer 13

April 13 Glimmer 13

13th, April 2025, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Garage, Music, Photos, Psychedelia, Ska, Street Photography, Streetart, Sunday, , , , , , , , , , , ,

Glimmer 13Glimmer 13 and its another of the open air gallery from People Mek Wigan on the way into work.  Sunday early and it seems to be a good shift.

Music

  1. The Total Rejection – Wrapping Yourself In Silver Foil Won’t Save You From The Blast
  2. The Total Rejection – The Time Traveller’s 3rd Will And Testament
  3. The Total Rejection – Everybody Knows What You Don’t Know
  4. The Total Rejection – Bridget (song For Billy Childish)
  5. The Nine Ton Peanut Smugglers – Drop Some Leg!
  6. Lee Cave Berry – Spring Forward

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Glimmer 11

11 April Glimmer 11

11th, April 2025, Beat, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Folk, Food, Mod, Music, Photos, Pop, Psychedelia, Reggae, Sunday, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Glimmer 11Easter Sunday and Glimmer 11 celebrates the fact I’ve finally cracked the cooking of Onion Bhaji after several years of failed attempts! Delicious too!  Cook a pork roast for the day.

Music

  1. Various Artists – Lee ‘scratch’ Perry And Friends: Land Of Kinks – The Jamaican Upsetter Singles 1970
  2. Various Artists – Gather In The Mushrooms (The British Acid Folk Underground 1968-1974)
  3. Various Artists – Liverpool Sunset (The City After Merseybeat 1964-1969)
  4. Prince Buster -Prince Buster – Funky Jamaica

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Glimmer 6

6th April Glimmer 6

6th, Abstract, April 2025, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Garage, Indie, Mod, Music, Photos, Psychedelia, Punk, Rockabilly, Ska, Street Photography, Sunday, Surf, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Glimmer 6Glimmer 6 and it’s back to the past.  A wee bimble around the shops and a quick snifter with herself.  Sort some metadata and clean the kitchen.  C makes the bed.

  1. Hipbone Slim & The Kneetremblers – Skeddadle
  2. Hipbone Slim & The Kneetremblers – Go Hog Wild
  3. Hipbone Slim & The Kneetremblers – Tombstone Rock
  4. Future Pilot AKA Featuring Robert Wyatt – Tutti Shrutti
  5. Future Pilot AKA featuring Emma Pollock / Ron Sexsmith – The Art Of Good Breathing
  6. Future Pilot AKA with The Family Orkestra featuring Vinita, Radhika & Anurudh – Jai Gopala
  7. Jowe Head – Diabolical Liberties
  8. Jowe Head & Infernal Contraption – Infernal Contraption
  9. Jowe Head & The Demi-monde – Visionaries EP
  10. Jowe Head – Lyke Wake Dirge
  11. Jowe Head – The Hurdy-Gurdy Man
  12. Jowe Head – The Other Side Of The Forest
  13. Soundtracks & Head – Daga Daga Daga
  14. Lori Stott & Jowe Head – Godstar
  15. Jowe Head – Strawberry Birthmarks
  16. Jowe Head – Screeches, Scribbles, And Scrawls

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My Fave Spot

30th March My Fave Spot

30th, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Indie, March 2025, Music, Photos, Space Rock, Still Life, Street Photography, Sunday, , , , , , , , , , ,

My Fave SpotMy Fave Spot – well I suppose the 610 counts as one of them as I experiment with Andy Burnham’s tap on, tap off experiment on the bus. It speeds me to Wigan having been a slug-a-bed after a bad night’s sleep as a result of cold feet.

Grab a brew at Morrison’s and trog to work.  Need a pony so find Rachel in before me.  Sort Tea and we begin.  Not a bad day, no HBB but other than that it’s cool.

Day done, repair unto Wigan and The Swan and Railway to wait for a bus, indulge in a pint of Naughty Hooker.  Bus home and salad.

  1. Snails – She’d Like An Hour
  2. Snails – Talking To Anthony
  3. Snails – Starting With Mine EP
  4. Snails – Safe In Silence
  5. Snails – Just Look Around
  6. Snails – Hard-Wired
  7. Snails – A Mystery To Me
  8. The Telescopes – Edition

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A Moment of Rest

23rd March A Moment of Rest

23rd, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Folk, Food, Indie, March 2025, Music, Photos, Pop, Punk, Reggae, Sunday, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

A Moment of RestC still crook, had a rough nights sleep, get up manage to trip the fuses with the toaster, make coffee and that at least offers a moment of rest.  Sort out the fuses, and C comes downstairs to tell me off.  Nip to the shop for water for C and job’s a good ‘un.  Slowly sort the roast after a sarnie for lunch.

Roast was appalling.

  1. Elijah Minnelli – Creamed Horn (EP)
  2. The Tubs – Dead Meat
  3. The Tubs – Cotton Crown
  4. The Tubs – Names EP
  5. Nico – Nico’s Last Concert: Fata Morgana
  6. Nico – Reims Cathedral – December 13th, 1974
  7. Nico – Desertshore
  8. Nico – The Classic Years

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Local

16th March Local

16th, Architecture, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Indie, March 2025, Music, Photos, Psychedelia, Sunday, , , , , , , , , ,

LocalHmm, well this was slightly odd. Head to Layla’s christening and encounter a set of stocks. Apparently thestocks are a reminder of a time when local criminals, including those convicted of murder, were tried at the Hare and Hounds public house, built in the 17th century.

Christening was cool, church an interesting 18th century brick built affair.  Afters at the Miners Institute and Leigh Miners Rangers are playing in the background as I watch The Arsenal beat Chelsea.

  1. The Sufis – The Sufis
  2. The Sufis – Inventions
  3. The Sufis – Double Exposure
  4. The Gories – Outta Here
  5. The Gories – Complete Bandin’ Sessions
  6. The Gories – I Know You Be Houserockin’
  7. The Gories – House Rockin
  8. The Smoking Trees – Funtime Sunshine/’66
  9. The Smoking Trees – The Adventure Continues…
  10. The Smoking Trees – The Archer and The Bull
  11. The Smoking Trees – Tst
  12. The Smoking Trees – Acetates

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My Fave Drink

9th March My Fave Drink

9th, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Food, Garage, March 2025, Music, Photos, Psychedelia, Sunday, , , , , , , , , ,

My Fave DrinkSunday morning and a lazy start to the day.  Coffee at the coffee shop and then a wee shop followed by a visit to the Tom and Gerry for a beer.  Back home and it’s out into the jungle at the front to clear dead bits and ivy.

Roast to cook and washing up to sort.

  1. Thee Escapees – Breaking Out
  2. The Spellbinder Project – Spellcheck
  3. The Spellbinder Project – Spell check, Vol. 2
  4. The Strawberry Mynde – Lord I’m So Tired / Try As I Might
  5. The Strawberry Mynde – Hidden Demo E.P.
  6. The Strawberry Mynde – Summershine (Demo)

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Simple pleasures

2nd March Simple Pleasures

2nd, Beat, Blues, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Food, Funk, Garage, Indie, March 2025, Mod, Music, Photos, Psychedelia, Punk, Soul, Sunday, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Simple pleasuresSunday and I’m in… at least there is Pizza. Phone the boy and Mum as usual, watch the Throw Down and Call the Midwife. More importantly home to meal cooked by C including dumplings. Love ’em!

  1. The Link Quartet – Episode One
  2. The Link Quartet – Fast Cars & Sexy Girls
  3. The Link Quartet – Beat.It
  4. The Link Quartet – Green Puma / Tropical Dandy
  5. The Link Quartet – The St Tropez Heist
  6. Mimiko – i-nichi
  7. The Guy Hamper Trio (Featuring James Taylor) – Chatham’s Burning
  8. The Guy Hamper Trio (Featuring James Taylor) – The Godess Tree
  9. Cream Soda – Make Up Your Mind

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W

23rd February W

23rd, Date, Days, February 2025, FMS Photo A Day, Garage, Indie, Mod, Pop, Psychedelia, Punk, Sunday, , , , , , , , , , ,

WSunday lazy start to the day.  Wash up and make breakfast. Nip to the shop and grab a swift pint.  Weather is foul.  Catch up with the boy in the afternoon, he’s sounding less tin helmety.

Folks seem fine when I ring.  C suffering from neuralgia and preparation for first day back blues.

  1. The Jasmine Minks – We Make Our Own History
  2. The Guy Hamper Trio (featuring James Taylor) – Dog Jaw Woman / The First Creature Is Jealousy
  3. The Guy Hamper Trio (featuring James Taylor) & Wild Billy Childish & The CTMF – 100 Yds Of Crash Barrier
  4. The Guy Hamper Trio (featuring James Taylor) – Cowboys Are Square / It’s So Hard To Be Happy
  5. Big Boss Man – Das Freak
  6. Big Boss Man – Bossin’ Around
  7. CTMF – Traces Of You
  8. CTMF – For Your Love
  9. Wild Billy Childish & The Chatham Singers – Step Out
  10. Wild Billy Childish & The Chatham Singers – Step Out (alt) / Upside Mine
  11. Wild Billy Childish & The Chatham Singers – Troubled Mind / Ranscombe Farm Boogie
  12. Mick Hampshire – From 30,000 Feet
  13. The 5-6-7-8’s & The Masonics – The Japan Tour EP
  14. The Masonics – Talkin’ About…
  15. The Masonics – Lookin’ For…
  16. The Masonics – I Got It All EP
  17. The Masonics – Sursum Tibiam Vestram
  18. Fallen Leaves – Rosalina / Stay
  19. Comet Gain – Only Happy When I’m Sad / Dreams Of A Working Girl
  20. Alvin Purple – Billie
  21. Les Chouettes – Idiomatiques
  22. Les Chouettes – Ha Ha Happiness
  23. Les Chouettes – Fallow of Follow

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